Reminders and AppleScript

Viticci wrote a great guide on using AppleScript to improve the standard Reminders.app that Apple provices on every Mac.

He ended his article with the following quote:

The downside of interacting with dialogs generated by OS X is that you can’t have the fancy custom interface of OmniFocus’ panel; you’re limited in the number of buttons you can add; and it’s moderately complex to customize the dialog window with additional options for things like notes or dates (which I have purposefully advoided to keep the script as simple as possible). If you’re looking for more advanced AppleScript solutions that work around natural language parsing for date and time, I’m sure you can find some online.

Since I liked the idea of a quick entry app, but need a due date for every today I create, I decided to tweak his script a little bit.

The app shows a standard Applescript dialog, but gives you the option to either create a reminder, or create a reminder with a due date. Choosing the later allows you to set a date and time for your reminder and an optional note.